Brev.dev

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Location San Francisco, CA
Founded 2021
Latest Stage Pre-Seed
Total Raised Undisclosed
Website https://brev.nvidia.com
Acquired By NVIDIA
Sector
ai developer-tools infrastructure gpu-cloud

Founders

Nader Khalil CEO & Co-Founder
Alec Fong Co-Founder

About

Brev.dev was a San Francisco developer-experience startup that unified GPU and cloud-compute access for AI developers across AWS, Google Cloud, and other providers, letting teams spin up ready-to-use environments without managing infrastructure directly 12. Co-founders Nader Khalil (CEO) and Alec Fong pivoted into Brev from their earlier YC-backed rideshare-advertising startup Paneau (YC W20) during the COVID-19 downturn, driven by their own developer-environment pain points 34.

NVIDIA acquired Brev.dev in July 2024; Khalil announced the deal publicly on July 17, 2024 5. The team joined NVIDIA to build “NVIDIA Brev,” now integrated into NVIDIA’s developer platform 6.

Funding History

Date Round Amount Lead Co-investors
2022-06-23 Pre-Seed Undisclosed (amount not publicly disclosed) Nama Ventures Nama Ventures (sole disclosed investor) 2910
2024-07-17 Acquisition Undisclosed (financial terms not disclosed) NVIDIA (acquirer) — 578

What Investors Say

Mohammed Alzubi of Nama Ventures, describing the founding team’s approach in the firm’s Brev.dev retrospective: “if we are facing this problem and we are good coders, imagine how many engineering teams are facing this exact problem” 3.

What Founders Say

Nader Khalil, on Brev’s design philosophy, from a June 2021 Forbes profile: “We built Brev such that you can stay abstracted from the infrastructure and build, but freely peel back the abstraction if you want” 1.

Nader Khalil, announcing the NVIDIA acquisition on LinkedIn, July 17, 2024: “We started Brev in my parents garage with the goal of building the best damn developer experience possible. We’ve been working closely with NVIDIA since August, meeting brilliant folks like Michael Balint, Manuvir Das, Manish Harsh, and Julio C. Tapia behind their software suite and we couldn’t be more excited to team up” 5.

Sources

  1. Forbes, “Brev Enables Software Engineers To Focus On Coding By Abstracting Away Infrastructure Tasks,” Frederick Daso, June 3, 2021. https://www.forbes.com/sites/frederickdaso/2021/06/03/brev-enables-software-engineers-to-focus-on-coding-by-abstracting-away-infrastructure-tasks/↩↩

  2. Nama Ventures, “Silicon Valley based Brev.dev closes a Pre-Seed round by Nama Ventures,” June 2022. https://www.namaventures.com/silicon-valley-based-brev-dev-closes-a-pre-seed-round-by-nama-ventures/↩↩

  3. Nama Ventures, “What A Ride! The story behind Nama Ventures’s investment in Brev.dev and its eventual acquisition by NVIDIA,” accessed July 2026. https://www.namaventures.com/what-a-ride-the-story-behind-nama-venturess-investment-in-brev-dev-and-its-eventual-acquisition-by-nvidia/↩↩

  4. Y Combinator company profile: Paneau (W20), accessed July 2026. https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/paneau↩

  5. Nader Khalil LinkedIn post, “Brev.dev has been acquired by NVIDIA!”, July 17, 2024. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/naderlikeladder_brevdev-has-been-acquired-by-nvidia-activity-7219052262373957633-fGsz↩↩↩

  6. NVIDIA Developer Blog, “Deploy GPU-Optimized AI Software with One Click Using Brev.dev and NVIDIA NGC Catalog,” Nader Khalil, July 1, 2024. https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/author/nader/↩

  7. Cryptopolitan, “Nvidia acquires AI startup Brev.dev to enhance Cloud GPU services,” July 2024. Accessed July 2026. https://www.cryptopolitan.com/nvidia-acquires-ai-startup-brev-dev/ — Contemporaneous trade press coverage of the acquisition. Notes this was NVIDIA’s fourth 2024 acquisition; unlike Run ($700M), Shoreline.io ($100M), and Deci ($300M), the Brev.dev deal terms were not disclosed. ↩

  8. Nama Ventures, “NVIDIA Acquires Brev.dev, a Portfolio Company of Nama Ventures,” July 2024. Accessed July 2026. https://www.namaventures.com/nvidia-acquires-brev-dev-a-portfolio-company-of-nama-ventures/ — Lead investor announcement of the NVIDIA acquisition; no financial terms disclosed. Includes quote from Mohamed Alzubi (Founder & Managing Director) on the exit. ↩

  9. Wamda, “Nama Ventures invests in US-based IT startup Brev.dev,” June 23, 2022. Accessed July 2026. https://www.wamda.com/en/2022/06/nama-ventures-invests-based-startup-brevdev — Contemporaneous MENA tech-press coverage dated June 23, 2022; confirms Nama Ventures pre-seed investment and that amount was undisclosed. No other participants named. ↩

  10. My Startup World, “Brev.dev raises an undisclosed amount in pre-Seed funding round,” June 24, 2022. Accessed July 2026. https://mystartupworld.com/brev-dev-raises-an-undisclosed-amount-in-pre-seed-funding-round/ — Independent contemporaneous press confirmation of Nama Ventures-led pre-seed with undisclosed amount. ↩